In 2023 and 2024, I led artist team Ana Cadena Payton and Daniel Peréz Rios in the development and implementation of Poesía para el bien común / Poetry of the Commons in Monterrey Mexico.

This project was funded and supported by Residencias Artísticas: Creación Experimental para la Justicia Social; Arts Initiative of the Tecnológico de Monterrey; Art and Culture axis of the FEMSA Foundation; Nuevo León Ministry of Culture; LABNL

As a socially engaged art project that centers social justice in the technological spaces of the Internet and LED Reader Boards in the city of Monterrey, Poesía para el bien común brought to life the proposal's stated criteria of "processes of artistic-technological experimentation and interaction with the community". 

With this stated criteria in mind, the project’s general outline was:

- Community engagements to understand the culture of thinking that informs future website prompts for public response. These may include socioeconomic, sociodemographic, environmental, or other issues important to the participant.

- Website design, programming, and testing to support early community engagement prompts as they develop in real time.

- Driving audience to website via social engagements, social and print media.

- Outreach of underserved communities to bridge possible digital divides.

- LED screens that project scrolling website content using built in wi-fi capability or portable access through 3rd party systems.

- Capacity building through project workshops titled Ethics of Community Engagement and Computer Programming for Socially Engaged Art at Tecnológico de Monterrey and LAB NL.

- Ongoing participation through multiple project entry points, building upon the poetry created by the citizens of Monterrey in response to community generated issues.  

- As a feedback loop, and in no particular order the project workflow consists of: website - LED reader boards - social medias - in person contact - website - LED Reader boards - social medias - in person contact, and so on...